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noun

Spirituality n. (pl. spiritualities)

The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly-mindedness. "A pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality." "If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality." "Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come."

(Eccl.) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities. "During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof."

An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality. (Obs.) "Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spirituality" Quotes from Famous Books

... are seldom thoroughly stifled unless by reference to the doctrine of chance, or, as it is technically termed, the Calculus of Probabilities. Now this Calculus is, in its essence, purely mathematical; and thus we have the anomaly of the most rigidly exact in science applied to the shadow and spirituality of the most intangible ...

— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... particular have popularized the knowledge of the condition. Virilists have to shave or be shaved regularly and are not bothered in the least by the cares, responsibilities, jealousies and anxieties of personal beauty, for the change in their spirituality makes them immune to the preoccupations of the feminine. The cause of such a transformation in a previously entirely normal woman has been found to be a tumor of ...

— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.

... glass he saw his wife descending the broad stairs. She was small and fragile. In her youth she had had a delicate pink and gold beauty. The years had worn away the pink and the gold but had left a spirituality ...

— Little Lost Sister • Virginia Brooks

... own. He heard and saw nothing which did not in some way suggest to him the ways and love of God. He was much in the habit of spiritualising all allusions of an earthly nature, and what in some men would have sounded like cant was refined by his inner spirituality to sanctified quaintness. For instance, Mr. Ireland with great difficulty persuaded Fletcher to sit for his portrait. While the artist was busy, his subject used the time in exhorting all in the room to spare no pains to get the outlines and colourings of the image of Jesus impressed upon their ...

— Fletcher of Madeley • Brigadier Margaret Allen

... Ages, for original documents, which might have served for our guidance, are wanting. It was not till late in the sixteenth century that the masterpieces of Catholic church music, which cannot be too highly praised, appeared. These express in the most exquisite manner pure Christian spirituality. The recitative arts, which are spiritual from their very nature, could indeed flourish fairly in Christianity, yet it was less favorable to those of design, for as these had to represent the victory ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VI. • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

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